ABSTRACT
This chapter speculates on the future of online education in the 2020s, 2030s, and beyond. In the 2020s, online education will have matured and Internet technology will have been integrated into the vast majority of all education through a wide variety of delivery designs. Online education will be viewed as routine and students will have come to expect that every course will have online components. The effects of new technological breakthroughs such as widespread use of nanotechnology and quantum computing in the design of computer chips and the implications for cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and media production are also considered.
